Langston Hughes — "I, too, sing America. I, too, am America."
I, too, sing America. I, too, am America.
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From his poem 'I, Too,' a powerful assertion of African American identity and belonging within the American narrative, directly challenging the exclusionary vision of Walt Whitman's 'I Hear America Singing.'
Date: 1926
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